Trapdoor @ UCD, Stillorgan Road

New composition by Seán Clancy & Matt Sargent for piano, electronics & electric guitar exploring the histories of migration.

Preserve the Strangers is a new concert-length collaborative composition from Seán Clancy and Matt Sargent for piano, electronics, and electric guitar. Through research and defamiliarisation of migration song, vernacular New England song, and sea shanties, the piece draws attention to the histories of migration whether voluntary or forced across the Atlantic ocean. By exploring this history and the music that arises through cultural pluralism, it is clear that migration is intrinsic to what humans do. Plus ça change...